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dc.contributor.advisorGentry, Caron E.
dc.contributor.authorAlexander-Owen, Mya Kaisha
dc.coverage.spatial[16], 330, [23] p.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-18T16:22:58Z
dc.date.available2019-12-18T16:22:58Z
dc.date.issued2019-12-03
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/19161
dc.descriptionElectronic version excludes material for which permission has not been granted by the rights holderen
dc.description.abstractThis work examines the limitations of Securitisation Theory by applying it to an ethnographic case study of Trinidad and Tobago – the state with the highest per capita ISIL recruitment rate in the Western World. It examines the reasons for the absence of a terrorism narrative for that country until very recently, where one might expect a narrative to have existed for decades. It argues that securitisation thinkers must continue to extend their arguments, as gaps in the current approaches are limiting their utility. To make this argument it shows that while securitisation theory on its own, fails to explain the absence of a narrative due to ineffectively providing a means to address contextual considerations, Agential Realism is able to effectively integrate the necessary historical and cultural realities through the quantum thinking informing its diffractive methodology and its hauntological approach to time and space. In applying both securitisation theories and Agential Realism to the case, it can be seen that history and culture are deeply entangled with the security politics of Trinidad and Tobago as a post-colonial state – as they are for the many other former colonies which make up the global landscape. This work shows that conventional approaches to understanding security in Trinidad and Tobago are limited in the questions which they can answer and that if the discipline seeks to have more profound understandings of a wide range of actors and be truly ‘global’, it must be willing to continue to push the expanding boundaries of critical orthodoxy.en_US
dc.description.sponsorship"This work was supported by the British Federation of Women Graduates [Ref # 189287]." -- Fundingen
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.relationAn opinion questionnaire on Trinidad and Tobago and terrorism (Thesis data) Alexander-Owen, M.K., University of St Andrews, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17630/1c3af0ad-d65f-4d54-a684-7c60a1c6a895en
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.17630/1c3af0ad-d65f-4d54-a684-7c60a1c6a895
dc.title#WeJamminStill : agential realism and Trinidad and Tobago's absent terrorism narrativeen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.contributor.sponsorBritish Federation of Women Graduatesen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US
dc.rights.embargodate2020-11-13
dc.rights.embargoreasonThesis restricted in accordance with University regulations. Print copy and Chapter 5 of electronic copy restricted until 13th November 2020en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.17630/10023-19161


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